The latest version of LAME will encode in Ogg format.  I don't know if it's
much faster or better though.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu [mailto:dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu]
> Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 3:08 PM
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> Subject: Re: [TCLUG] CD ripper/ MP3 encoder
> 
> 
> > 
> > Everything I've been doing lately is Ogg, however, the 
> oggenc encoder is
> > pretty slow.  A 4 minute song takes about 4 mins to encode 
> on a PII 450.  Of
> > course, the last time I used LAME, it was about equally as slow.
> > 
> Solution: I have dual pIII 800's.  I just run an instance of 
> oggenc on each
> CPU and can encode 2 4-minute songs in under 2 minutes :)  
> I'm currently
> encoding all ~170 of my CDs and I'd love to be able to do it 
> faster.  Are
> there any other (better) ogg encoders?
> 
> Gabe
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